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It took Congress 17 days to vote for independence.
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The US paid certain “contributions”, not taxes, (but you might call those contributions coming from US taxes anyway) to the Barbary States, a string of North African ports, such as Oran, Algiers, Tripoli, Tunis, mainly dominated by pirates, aka Barbary corsaires, that were nominally subdued to Ottoman Empire.
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By today's standards this period in the US wasn't very democratic, since minorities and women and poor people could not vote. It became less equal because of wealth disparities.